Chapter 5: I'm Still Growing Up

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Y/N's POV:

"Randy?" There was no response. I gently gripped his cold hand and waited for a sign that he'd heard me. Nothing. Not even a twitch of his fingers. I closed my damp eyes and remembered just a few days ago, we'd been playing in the snow. When he was awake, and when I was his good friend.
"We're here, buddy. Can you hear us?" Howard tried. He held Randy's other hand on the other side of the hospital bed and stared intently at his best friend. I swallowed back a sob as so many memories passed over my mind. The memory of when he comforted me under that tree in the woods, the time when we had found the journal... I couldn't bare the thoughts! I breathed in and out, my voice shuddering as I remembered the day I had first met him and how he hadn't rejected me for the new girl and had accepted me into his life. Why did it have to come to this? Why hadn't I just been his friend and stayed with him! I could have been there for him, I could have helped him! But... I also could have been in the hospital bed along with Randy...
But I wasn't. It was him and him alone in the hospital, and I was a shoob, hiding like a coward instead of taking on the challenge. Suddenly, in my hands, Randy's hand twitched and shivered. I flashed my eyes open and see Randy's hand twitch and shiver in my hands. His breathing was becoming faster and faster, his heart beat going faster as well. He's coming back! He's coming back! I thought, hope just balancing on the edge of being shattered or turning to gold. I could feel inside me I was screaming out for joy, until I realized with horor that he was choking. Before I knew it, Randy's mouth was open, gaping for air that didn't come to him, and the heart rate meter thing was singing a one note song that was as scary as a heart attack. "Oh, my god! Oh, my god!!" I said, shaking all over. I burst out the door of the room, fear clasping onto my heart and making my heartbeat pound harder.
"I need help!!" I screamed in the halls. I blanked out as nurses and doctors rushed by and everything seemed to flow out in slow motion. Everything that had happened, it had happened for a reason... not just because it happened.
Someone had done something to get Randy to where he was now... Someone who had a cold heart, someone who had no feelings for anyone else but themselves. "Miss? Miss are you ok?" I snapped out of my blank out and saw the same nurse that said we were able to go in. I stared her in the eyes, feeling tears rise up.
"Yeah. I'm... I'm fine." I looked back and saw a huddle of doctors and nurses around the bed. I also saw Randy's hand in a fist and pulling up like he was chained to the bed. I knew exactly who was doing this. And I was gonna make them suffer. I promise Randy.

The night was bleak that night, clouds masking the moon. I sat on the top of a building searching for the monsters. It was nearly 2am. Where the f.u.c.k were those monsters!? I swung from the roof top and saw a flash of aqua near the edge of the city. I blended into the shadows, breathing in and out with the heat of anger fueling the heat that made the cold seem like it was nothing.
I glared at the edge of town and saw the flicker of blue again. Then the anger spiked and I felt the rage I couldn't keep a hold of unleash. I rocketed into the forest and showed no fear with my sword in hand. "COME OUT AND FIGHT!!!!" I seared. Rumbles of paw steps thundered around me. Soon, I was surrounded by the beasts. "You... You hurt my friend! Now, I'll make you feel his pain, make you feel the way he does. But there will be a difference in his pain and yours, I promise you!"
The beasts looked at each other and lowered their heads to let a human come between them.
"Weeeellll, seems you've caught your friends," someone said. And it was a familiar voice... someone with the cold heart that I had guessed.
"Bill."
The demon smirked sharply and snapped his fingers, releasing the monsters into humans... wait! It's Therisa, Melody, and Debby Kang!? "Wha..? What happened?" they all said.
"Get out of here!" I said, glancing away and to the city. They nodded and ran that way. I glared at the dark demon that stood in front of me. My Ninja sword glinted in the lightning that flashed from the storm. "Why...? Why did you have to hurt him? When did he ever do anything to you!?" I said, the feeling of dark anger rise in my heart. The memories of Randy's bravery slid by my mind and I found there was bravery in me too. I managed to defeat him once, I'm sure I can do it again! Outside of my thoughts laughter was erupting.
"Oh, my god! You seriously thought you had beaten me back there in the Mind Scape? Ha ha ha! Oh, you don't know who you're messing with, do you Y/N?" He said, holding his stomach.
"B...but I thought...?" I said quietly. No plan. Nothing. Just... Rage. I flipped forward and sliced my sword towards the demon. But he just dodged, blacked and threw me around. This is it...? This is the end? I thought, lying on the ground after a little bit. No! I made a god damn promise to Randy, and I'm sure as hell gonna keep it!

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